Im running a 2011 imac with 12gig of ram. I've just upgraded to mountain lion and fcpx 10.0.6. My issue concerns the event browser. I was in the process of of of editing an sd project when all of a sudden the clips the event browser won't play when i press the space bar. I have tried opening another event and the same thing happens. I've never encountered this before. Does anyone know what's happening here?
Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Try quitting and restarting FCP X.
If that does not work, try deleting your preferences.
thanks for your reply. I tried both those options and none helped. I am right in thinking that you just click in a clip in the event browser, then press the space bar and play? Something else odd is happening because I'm seeing the clip in the event brower in both the event viewer and the timeline window.
Can you post screen shots of what you're seeing the browser, timeline, and viewer? Do you have the skimmer turned on?
I had the skimmer on. The skimmer works in the timeline and in a clip in the event browser but if I press space bar with a clip selected in the event browser it simply refuses to play. Before this happened I noticed that fcpx had stopped skimming in the timeline but that functionality returned and now I can't play anything in the event browser.
I've removed FCPX from my system and am downloading it again. I'll keep you both up to date with what happens.
Okay, so I removed FCPX 10.0.6 and reinstalled it but the problem is still there. I noticed this time that after trying to get an event browser clip to play and having no success I went to the timeline and that no longer skimmed even though the skimmer was activated (blue symbol, top right of timeline.) I deactivated and reactivated the skimmer and it started to function again. This is quite a worry, really.
This is rather strange. Maybe there is something in your user account that is causing a conflict.
Try running FCP X from a different admin account. Does it function normally? If so, then you'll know that it is something in user account.
how do you create another user account?
I have just created another user account and the problem has disappeared. It's a far from satisfactory solution though. Is there a way to fix the original account?
Thanks for that Lui. I'm in the process of researching how to rebuild that user account.
so...I rebuilt the old user account and the problem is still there.
As an update...I went back to my old user account and carried out the procedures Apple recommends for uninstalling FCPX and then reinstalled it after doing a repair permissions job and my drive and low behold the issue of no playback in event browser clips has disappears. Great. Don't totally know why.
I had this exact problem. This is how I solved it:
Go to 'Window' then select 'Revert to Original Layout'
Simple.
Solved my problem! Thanks for the tip rridout!
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